Assessment of tsunami hazards on the British Columbia coast due to a local megathrust subduction earthquake

Strong evidence suggests that the Cascadia subduction zone, off the west coast of Canada and the United States, is strongly seismically-coupled and that a possible megathrust earthquake might occur in that area in the near future. A study of tsunami hazards along the Canadian west coast associated...

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Main Author: Ng, Max Kin-Fat
Language:English
Published: University of British Columbia 2010
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/29633